ABSTRACT
I DRAWING 7 WHEN the patient showed me this drawing I was aware of a rather disagreeable impression, as though something important had been said in a trivial manner. I had already begun to suspect the existence of something behind the scenes; but the present series of drawings was produced while the patient was away, when there was no opportunity of keeping step in the ordinary way with the sequence of events. The superficial character of the drawing, compared with the preceding one, is like a false note-a certain hint of insincerity, which, in point of fact, the patient also sensed, since he immediately wanted to revoke it as unworthy.
